The Faded Guest
The dust in the workshop did not merely settle; it hung suspended in the slanting afternoon light, a fine, gray mist that coated the lungs and the conscience alike. Elias Thorne stood before the workbench, his hands trembling not from the cold that seeped through the single-pane windows but from the terrible, aching weight of the ledger he had just closed. The numbers were final, a stark...
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